Has the Post Ever Had a Headline About the "Whoppingly" Inefficient Health Care System?

Post Exaggerates the Size of the Stimulus Bill

Okay folks, this is 2-year stimulus, not a 1-year package. (Actually, as the Republicans were fond of pointing out, much of the spending will not take place until 2011, year 3 of the package.) That means that there is a word to describe the Post's claim that the package is more than 5 percent of GDP: "wrong."

Of course, if the Post was interested in accurate reporting it might also have noticed that the package saved the government $140 billion by ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Doug Greer - Feb 16, 2009 - 8:50 AM PST
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by Michele Kelly - Feb. 17, 2009

This is quality journalism in that it points out deficiencies of supposedly quality journalism. This is a blog post; it is not a news story. Furthermore, it's a liberal blog post. Since I am a liberal, that's ok with me.

I believe the decline of mainstream media newspapers has as much to do with their failure to report the news accurately and free of bias as it does ... More »

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